maximus-decimus

At the university level, should you really take students by the hand like that and trick them into learning? You have to learn to learn at some point.

My mother is 70 years old and has never bothered to learn how to change the volume of the tv using a controller. My father was recently in the hospital and she had to learn how to put gas in her car.

I love her, but it's truly mind boggling how little she cares about learning stuff.

There was a post on reddit yesterday about how all of Wes Anderson's movies were financed by his billionaire cinephile friend despite them not making much money.

We must have interacted with very different students in our lives if you think students will put any effort whatsoever in a test whose results have no consequence.

Hell, at my jobs people take pride in hacking their way through security training instead of watching the 5 minute video.

I see the appeal of wanting to link things, but even then I find information to be so context dependent that I just do hierarchical notes anyway.

Like if you want to brush up python for interviews, you're gonna want to take notes about specific things like heaps and string builders. You don't want to dilute that info with stuff you know will never be asked in an interview like how to build a TUI.

I don't understand, wouldn't it be worse for motivation to take longer to achieve the same results?

At the end, my windows 7 machine would take an hour to boot if I remember right because Windows used 100% of my hard drive to do god knows what. Windows 7 at the end was literally unusable without an ssd.

The are two gender : women and white men.

If people don't care about work being easy, then all the people in this thread should stop telling people they're not allowed to complain because their job is easy. The job being easy either matters or it doesn't.

I've never heard anyone argue that men with no hair loss are less manly so no I don't think it counts as gender affirming care.

I have man boobs, I guess fixing that would technically be gender affirming care because I'm embarrassed of having female features, but balding is really a stretch.

I don't understand, is your argument that curing baldness is mostly for trans because it help men get rid of male pattern baldness?

Considering eBay also had management that harassed people by mailing them live spiders and dead pig fetuses... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ebay-pay-3-million-empl...

You really have to wonder if they put microphones/cameras in those to spy on you.

How is that legal? Could he also decide to sell a Bic pen he personally owns to XAI for 100 billion dollars? What's the line? Do you need to be able to convince a judge you truly believe it's worth that?

And you think the top google results are not gonna be PR astroturf too? SEO is the whole reason I append Reddit in the first place, it just killed google.

There's a guy who wrote a AutoHotKey IDE in autohotkey (AHK Studio). I knew it was quality when I saw his avatar was a My Little Pony character. Back then I think a single 10k line ahk file.

I just went to his site and there's no pony anymore though :( Surely a sign the quality has decreased.

https://www.maestrith.com/ahk-studio/

How close to the Balmer peak the programmer was when he wrote the code.

I care dis-proportionally about experiencing the story, so to me a second watch loses a lot of appeal.

And tbh, I feel like movies are very meta and you also get more from each movie if you watch more movies/read more books. Like Doctor Sleep for example, is an adaptation of a Doctor Sleep novel, but also a sequel to both the Shining novels and movies. You would get more of it if you read the two novels and watched the shining movie than if you just watched the movie or read one of the novel twice. I also enjoy watching different adaptations of something and pit them against each other, like Let the Right In (both the novel and the movie) and the American adaptation. I guess that's my version of what you get when you watch a movie twice.

It's like when we were kids and teachers said "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket". In 30 years, we might all have an AI model in a brain chip, who knows.

Good for you if you enjoy that.

I really don't care for it though. I have 0 interest in watching Harry Potter 20 times. And considering new content comes out over 10x faster than I can consume it, I don't see "depending on new content" as being a problem.

New doesn't mean good, but watching something new to you has a plus value.

Even if you just like old movies, there are tonnes of great old movies. Don't you want to watch more than one?

Experiencing something for the first time just isn't the same.

> Why spend hours sorting through Netflix' low quality catalog when you can watch a movie you love whenever you want?

Because I would rather watch something I've never seen before?

I've heard a story on Reddit of a guy watching Big Trouble in Little China everyday for years, but usually people wanna watch new stuff. I guess people also rewatch shows like Friends and The Office, but do they really "watch" it or do they just play it as background noise?

> horrible block artifacts especially in dark scenes

I don't know if Netflix just hates me, but I get that on all their stuff. It's to the point I pirated Midnight Club to watch it instead of just using my Netflix account because the show was unwatchable using their service.

Companies don't do agile, they just for some reason gaslight you into believing you're doing agile.

My company has fixed date releases with architecture proposals before a feature and predefined requirements for the whole release, but no no it's scrum because we have useless meetings every 2 weeks. I just don't understand why they care so much about pretending we're doing agile.

That's assuming you don't fill the gap with immigration.

The problem with looking at which funds over-perform is they just close the funds that under-perform so all the existing ones over-perform... by the sheer power of survivorship bias.

> There’s obviously a huge difference between a scam and a violent attack.

I do not agree with that statement. You're just justifying anti-social behavior.

switching a sesame seed on my burger bun is not the same thing as scanning it and uploading the file to the cloud.

I have non-stop imaginary conversation. I think this might be backwards, you feel less the need to talk to real people if you're always talking to fake people IMO.

I don't know why you aim at them in particular. The only subcompacts left in NA I believe are the Nissan versa and the Mitsubishi mirage, and the Mirage gets killed next year.

They all killed their small cars. All of them.

No more Honda Fit, no more Mazda 2 / Yaris, Kia Rios, Chevy Spark, Chevy Sonic, Nissan Micra, Mitsu Mirage. In Canada at least, the Fiat 500 only exists as an overpriced BEV model with such a small range it's unusable except as a pure city car.